The Strategic Performance Deputy Director is responsible for ensuring strategic objectives, business-as-usual (BAU) activities, and other Estates initiatives are aligned and delivered to the highest quality standards. This includes identifying and resolving interdependencies and conflicts to enable seamless execution.
The role purpose is to lead the Directorate in delivering against its strategic plan, ensuring that all transformation, planning, and strategic activities are executed within scope and on schedule.
The role supports the Director by proactively planning and driving the delivery of strategic initiatives, ensuring they meet defined standards and timelines., + Lead engagement across several change and strategic initiatives, ensuring the team is delivering to plan and scope to achieve progress against the HMRC level strategic objectives
+ Drive proactive resolution of cross cutting issues by the creation and leverage of strong functional relationships across the Stakeholder population,
+ Drive critical assessment of and improvement to the delivery environment within estates and locations, supporting increasingly efficient delivery.
+ Lead engagement across the change environment to ensure that funding is targeted, accurate and timely ensuring strategic change is prioritised, coordinated and delivered effectively.
+ Build a longer-term view of demand requirements for all initiatives - working with Estates SLT, CPO SLT and multiple supplier led Delivery Groups.
+ Ownership of the master plan - put in place to support initiatives to define and shape their sequencing/scope/delivery effectively - and driving the identification of emerging opportunities
+ Lead across Estates SLT to ensure a clear articulation of strategic delivery plans within functions
+ Lead the development of our functional standards strategy ensuring alignment between OGP, HMRC and Industry ambitions
+ Lead the improvement and utilisation of delivery data to enable data driven improvements.
+ Champion and accountability for assurance of strategy and planning - driving the necessary cultural changes required to enable this.
+ Drive identification and active use of lessons learned in delivery of change through engagement with DD functions
+ Playing active role as a member of the SLT and Property Profession leading with purpose and demonstrating exemplar behaviours., HMRC is a Disability Confident leader and guarantees to interview candidates applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme who successfully meet the minimum selection criteria outlined in the person specification.
Assessment
If shortlisted, you will take part in the following assessment:
+ Staff Engagement Exercise - a presentation and Q&A with a representative staff group from across HMRC.
Assessments are designed to support the panel's decision making and highlight areas for further exploration at interview and do not result in a pass or fail decision.
Interview
You will attend a panel interview for a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence. This will include a 5- minute verbal presentation (further information will be issued in advance). Interviews are expected to take place in person virtually via Microsoft teams.
All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

+ Extensive experience in property, estates, or facilities management within a complex delivery environment with a proven track record of senior leadership experience in strategic planning and performance management.
+ Understanding of digital transformation and modern workplace strategies within large-scale organisational change contexts
+ Demonstrated expertise in change management and transformation programmes, with evidence of successfully leading multi-stakeholder initiatives
+ Proven analytical and data interpretation skills with demonstrable ability to drive performance improvements through evidence-based decision making
+ Appropriate qualification in a property discipline and/or professional accreditation of a relevant property body (e.g. MRICS, MCIOB, or equivalent), or equivalent experience and willingness to obtain accreditation upon appointment, which HMRC will support

Alongside your salary of £81,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Pension
Your Civil Service pension is a valuable part of your total reward and is one of your biggest benefits.
When you join the Civil Service, you get access to the alpha pension with a generous employer contribution of 28.97% and some of the lowest member contributions in the public sector.
Please visit Civil Service Pension Scheme for more information.

Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance
25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service (allowance pro-rata for part-time colleagues).
This is complemented by one days paid privilege leave to mark the King's Birthday and is in addition to your public holidays.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
The Civil Service values and supports all its employees.
At HMRC we want to create great places to work that are welcoming to all - where there is a strong sense of belonging and community.
Our HMRC equality objectives 2024-2028 describe how we are working to become a more inclusive and representative organisation reflective of our values.